What problems are worth solving?
I'm a software dev, and I feel like I can do more in this world than be a crud-monkey for a Fortune 500 company. However, most of the problems that I see in the world don't seem solvable through software. Does anyone else have this problem? Are there obvious outstanding problems that can be solved through software? If there are, who are the people solving these problems?
A lot of the world's problems are people problems. Like the kind of problem that deals with the soft squishy bits of humans as a species - hunger, healthcare, etc. Its hard for me to imagine software solving those types of problems. Maybe software can help, but ultimately software is not going to solve them by itself.